145 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 5:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.
43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
hi-hat through bars 1-56, ride through bars 57-64, hi-hat through bars 65-72, ride through bars 73-86, hi-hat through bars 87-96 and ride through bars 97-120, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-28, 45-56 and 65-72, and 1 more place -- 27.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 84, 108 and 116.
It cuts the song into 40 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.
110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.
43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
145 bars, about 5:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 84, 108 and 116.